Album of the Year - 2022

Annual tradition. What was good this year? Share your faves, discover something new.

My recency biased list:

1. Alvvays- Blue Rev
   
2. Fontaines DC - Skinty Fia
   
3. Julia Jacklin - Pre Pleasure
   
4. Stella Donnelly - Flood
   
5. The Beths - Expert in a Dying Field
   
6. Soccer Mommy - Sometimes, Forever
   
7. Martha - Please Don't Take Me Back
   
8. Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
   
9. Sadurn - radiator
   
10. Launder - Happening
    
    

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbQYrVILo6o

In no particular order

Marlon Williams - my boy
All the Alva noto and ryuchi Sakamoto represses
Keith Jarrett- Bordeaux
Big thief - dragon new warm mountain...
Mall grab - what I breathe
Vieux Farka toure & khruangbin -Ali

In no order;

Oren Ambarchi / Johan Berthling / Andreas Werliin - Ghosted
Blue Lake - Stikling
Beyonce - Renaissance
Oren Ambarchi - Shebang
Thomas Bush - Preludes
Cate Le Bon - Pompeii
Md After Hussain, PAQ - Matir Gaan: Songs From The Earth
Moin - Paste
Jeff Parker - Mondays at The Enfield Tennis Academy
Dawuna - Glass Lit Dream
Julia Reidy - World In World
Ulla - Foam
Jon Collin - Bridge Variations

Reissues / Mixes -
Tia Blake And Her Folk-Group – Folksongs & Ballads
Hallelujahs – Eat Meat, Swear an Oath / 肉​を​喰​ら​ひ​て​誓​ひ​を​た​て​よ
Loren Connors – Airs
Alva noto and ryuchi Sakamoto - Viroon
Various – Lèspri Ka : New Directions in Gwoka Music from Guadeloupe 1981​-​2010
Blod – Knutna Nävar
Alice Coltrane Featuring Pharoah Sanders And Joe Henderson – Ptah, The El Daoud
Amateur Hour – Framtiden Tillhör Inte Oss
Time is away - Ballads

All the Alva noto and ryuchi Sakamoto represses

How many of these did you pick up, only got Viroon, as the one I remember from the time and the V for virus.

I can never remember what came out in the year or what I actually listened to but I was just shuffling one of my playlists which reminded me that I did enjoy Horsegirl - Versions of Modern Performance

3? Vrioon, summvs and insen.

In no order

Ron Trent presents Warm - What do the stars say to you
Myele Manzana - Crisis & Opportunity vol.3 Unfold
Wu-lu - Loggerhead
Little Simz - NO THANK YOU
Contour - Onwards!
SAULT - 11
Dezron Douglas - Atalaya
Makaya McCraven - In These Times
Various Artists - Touching Bass: Soon Come
Soil & 'Pimp' Sessions - Lost in Tokyo

Others - Doomcannon, Kokoroko, Plaid, Shabaka, Comet is Coming, SAULT (all of the their other albums), Neil Young, Lambchop, Kaidi Tatham, Danger Mouse & Black Thought, Camilla George, Anteloper.

Listend to a load of new music this year.

Bump!
This thread needs more posts.

What's an album?

A thing you put photographs in.

Instagram?

Kinda, but for old people.

Oh, like Friends Reunited or MySpace?

I recognise barely any of these people.

Music from 2022 that I liked enough to buy or play more than once on Spotify. Mostly by artists people have heard of.

Suede - Autofiction
Metric - Formentera
A-Ha - True North
Muse - Will of the People
Midlake - For the Sake of Bethel Woods
xPropaganda - The Heart is Strange
Charmed Life - The best of the Divine Comedy (deluxe edition)
Pomme - Consolation
Dubstar - Two
Belle and Sebastian - A Bit of Previous
Pete Yorn - Hawaii
Angele - Nonante Cinq
Harry Styles - Harry's House.

I didn't know midlake or dubstar had released something. I thought autofiction was a bit disappointing after the first single off it was so good.